“Readers will get drawn into the fascinating world of Stephen and his friends-real and imagined-as they work together to solve the seemingly unsolvable.” Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds includes the novellas Legion, Legion: Skin Deep, and the finale to Stephen Leeds' story, Lies of the Beholder. Now he finds himself in a race against time and crossing continents to discover the truth about his aspects…and the lies he tells himself. Wherever he goes, a team of imaginary experts help him solve problems-for a price.Īs the aspects start taking on lives of their own, Stephen is hired to recover a camera that can take pictures of the past. To contain and make use of all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people who Stephen calls aspects. Like Sherlock Holmes or Wednesday Addams, the best detectives always have their quirks…Ī genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen Leeds can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. Legion: Skin Deep featuring a full-color dust jacket, and two full-page, full-color interior illustrations by Jon Foster.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a thriller that will make you question reality. It reaffirms Sanderson’s place as one of contemporary fiction’s most intelligent-and unpredictable-voices. Legion: Skin Deep is speculative fiction at it most highly developed. What follows is a visionary thriller about the potential uses of technology, the mysteries of the human personality, and the ancient human need to believe that death is not the end. He may have embedded something in the cells of his now dead body.

The corpse is that of a pioneer in the field of experimental biotechnology, a man whose work concerned the use of the human body as a massive storage device. As the new story begins, Leeds and his “aspects” are hired by I3 (Innovative Information Incorporated) to recover a corpse stolen from the local morgue. Stephen Leeds, AKA “Legion,” is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. In the stunning sequel, Legion: Skin Deep, that talent is on full display. In Legion, a short, distinctly contemporary novella filled with suspense, humor, and an endless flow of invention, Sanderson revealed a startling new facet of his singular narrative talent.

His ambitious, multi-volume epics (Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive) and his stellar continuation of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series have earned both critical acclaim and a substantial popular following. Signed and numbered US HB LIMITED first edition - also signed, lined and dated by the author on the subsequent page.ĭust jacket and interior illustrations by Jon Fosterīrandon Sanderson is one of the most significant fantasists to enter the field in a good many years.

Legion by Brandon Sanderson